The third season of the strange new world does not reach its second

This is a visualization without a spoiler of the first five episodes of season three.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds He finished his second season with perhaps the only strongest cycle of every campaign of the streaming era. The show was made with such confidence in all departments that if there were disadvantages, he was not interested in them. Since then, this has gone away from being Best a modern hike to be only A modern hike. Unfortunately, at the moment he must be the standard carrier of the show, he becomes noticeably worse and less consistent.

As usual, I saw the first five episodes, but I can’t reveal the specifics of what I saw. I can say many of the things they did Strange new worlds The best hike on the modern day live remains in place. This is a show that is happy for you to spend time with his characters while hanging, and almost everyone is deeply charming. After all, it’s a show that uses the crew image in Pike’s neighborhoods, while the captain is preparing for his crew.

Its format, with independent adventures, combined with serialized drama with characters, means that he can offer something new every week. Think again of the first season, when Memento Mori, a tense thriller with the upper one, was immediately followed by Spock Amok, a romantic comedy of the romantic comedy of the star manners focused. Strange new worlds is the first hike for a long time to realize that the audience does not just want a continuous slogan of a strict, angry Grimdark. And if they want that they can go to watch Picard and Section 31S

But as much as these things are Snw’s The biggest force, this is a delicate balance to ensure that the series is not pressing too far. And, it bothers me to say this, the show spends the first five episodes of my third season, reaching too far in both directions (though, mercifully, not at the same time). There are no specifics, but an episode I’m sure it was in the same list of desires for a whiteboard as a music episode from last season. What was clearly intended as a chance for everyone to get out of their usual roles and have fun. Because the episode can never overcome the feeling of being too delighted with its own nonsense to function properly.

At the other end of the rock, we get sprints to the Grimnal Grimdark, which waves these other series. Of course, the series has gone to dark places before, but before that with more sense of skill, and not just to go for the visceral sealing above. The cynic may suggest that as the other Paramount projects ended, the franchise converter Alex Kurtzman-which pushed the franchise on a « darker » territory when he could have more time in The Snw Writers’ room.

As much as I enjoyed the elements of the series « Soap, the ongoing storylines occupy an increasing part of the time of performance of each episode so far. Therefore, the history of the week gets a smaller service, which makes them feel greater and less agreed. One episode is rotating two -third He feels thrown as thoughtful or to resolve a thread with which the creative team thinks they are obliged to cope (they do not).

In fact, this and the recently completed running of Doctor who It suffers from the same problem that tingles so many shows from the streaming era, which is the limited order of the episode. Instead of producing television in large-scale broadcasting networks were able- annual runs of 22-, 24- or 26 episodes, many (expensive) genre shows receive less than half of that. The result is that each episode must be more important than the latter in a way that is exhausting to the viewer.

But Strange new worlds He cannot solve all economic problems with the streaming model alone. I hope that, like his first season, the more famous episodes are in his front half to soften us for the moments of quality, followed by his conclusion.

Aside: shortly before posting, Paramount announced Strange new worlds It will end in its fifth season, which will be cut off by ten episodes to six. Not surprisingly, the equally shiny lower decks are also referred to, it was also stopped after passing the same cornerstone-but disappointing. My only hope is that the series does not spend this final running awkwardly killing from the young ensemble of the series one by one to replace them with the whole original series « The Composition to make it » order « . Please let them be their own things.